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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:25:37 -0500
To: Lars Schouw <schouwla AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: openssh under Windows XP
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At 02:52 AM 3/24/2005, you wrote:
>I am having a problem installing the ssh server daemon
>sshd under Windows XP.
>I keep on getting the following error:
>
>$ ssh-host-config  -y
>Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
>Generating /etc/ssh_config file
>Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
>Privilege separation is set to yes by default since
>OpenSSH 3.3.
>However, this requires a non-privileged account called
>'sshd'.
>For more info on privilege separation read
>/usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep
>.
>
>Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
>Generating /etc/sshd_config file
>
>Host configuration finished. Have fun!
>
>I have created the sshd user under Windows and in
>cygwin /etc/passwd


Why did you do that?  ssh-host-config does that for you.  You might want to 
make sure that you don't have duplicates now.


>When I look in the event log under Windows XP I can
>see this error message:
>Object Open:
>    Object Server:  Security
>    Object Type:    Key
>    Object Name:
>\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1262546438-923394911-2232506658-29478
>    Handle ID:  -
>    Operation ID:   {0,14750546}
>    Process ID: 740
>    Image File Name:    C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
>    Primary User Name:  IBTKYGSW84974$
>    Primary Domain: AD
>    Primary Logon ID:   (0x0,0x3E7)
>    Client User Name:   schouwl
>    Client Domain:  AD
>    Client Logon ID:    (0x0,0x22D5EC)
>    Accesses:       MAX_ALLOWED 
>            
>    Privileges:     -
>    Restricted Sid Count: 0
>
>
>Does this ring a bell by anyone?
>My Windows admin told me it might because there is a
>limit fo how many open socket connections the Windows
>XP pro can have open at one time and should try on a
>server version of Windows.


I'm not sure how you got from the above to this but if this is a problem 
that's keeping the ssh server from running for you, you need to look at 
what other services you have running.  Also, its not clear based on the
information you've given whether or not you've even started the ssh server.
Also, did you run ssh-user-config?  

If you're still having problems getting the Cygwin ssh server working for 
you, please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at 
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  FWIW, I run this server on both 
W2K and XP machines without any difficulty.  So whatever the problem is that
you're seeing, it's local.




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